Sep 11 1992
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
The Boeing Aircraft Company announced plans to produce some jetliner parts in the former Soviet Union as soon as possible. The effort would enable Boeing to gain increased access to the Russian aviation market and to meet stiff competition from Russian and European firms. (WSJ, Sept 11/92)
NASA announced that a Space Shuttle flight link up with the Russian Mir Space Station, tentatively planned for September 1994, would be retargeted for launch in April 1995. A flight by a Russian cosmonaut aboard the Shuttle Discovery remained on track for launch on November 16, 1993. The first flight to begin building the planned Space Station Freedom was rescheduled for July 1996. (Space News, Sept 14-20/92)
In an interview in Huntsville, Alabama, Vice Presidential candidate Al Gore said that a Clinton administration would support a return to the Moon and Mars but would not commit major resources to such efforts. Given other current NASA priorities, Gore said the longer-range mission to Mars "must be pursued according to a sensible timetable." (Htsvl Tms, Sept 11/92)
Scientists studying data from Jupiter's highly charged magnetic environment reported that the solar wind exerts a much stronger influence on the planet's magnetic field than previously thought. The discovery was the result of the unique trajectory of the spacecraft Ulysses, a joint NASA-European Space Agency mission on its way to study the poles of the Sun. (NASA Release 92-145)
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